Hi,
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
If you have already made an effort to contact the maintainer without
satisfaction, then what you are really looking for is someone to
salvage the package.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/
pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
debian-devel isn’t the best place to make a package salvaging request.
Realistically, if you really care about the package, your best option
is probably to become the maintainer of the package yourself.
If you have any interest, I would recommend you read:
https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/
Questions about how to package should be directed to debian-
ment...@lists.debian.org.
I'm not very familiar with Debian to do it myself, but there are some
Debian Maintainers that offered their efforts to help. However, given
this:
I currently have 3 issues with the current situation:
1) It's a new upstream, so all code should be reviewed.
2) On several channels I get urged to follow one of multiple new
upstreams from quite some people I've never heard before. This is
suspicious, especially after the xz fuckup 4 months ago. So I have to
be extra cautious in choosing a new upstream.
3) It's not so high on my TODO list.
Help from well-known DDs is very welcome!
And this:
(Axel) is the current maintainer and not absent, and I’ve already said
I’ll provide a fix in time.
In fact, sponsorship requests for a package that has a maintainer are
hostile takeover attempts. We wouldn’t want anyone to do these.
(From https://chaos.social/@xtaran/112905124915743612)
I was under the assumption that the Debian Developers were the only
group suitable to perform the update. If this is not the case, I can ask
around in case someone is interested in helping with the salvage
process.
Thanks,
Rodrigo.
